GRANTVILLE, PA -- History
will be made on several fronts Saturday night at Hollywood Casino at Penn
National Race Course starting with the inaugural running of the $500,000 Penn
Mile, richest race in track history.

Total purses for the ten-race card featuring six stakes
races and beginning at 6:00PM will be $1.19 million – a single-day record since
the Grantville oval opened on August 30, 1972.

The program gained instant national notoriety Wednesday when
the winning jockeys in two of the last three Kentucky Derby's were named on
mounts in the Penn Mile, the $250,000 Mountainview Handicap, and the 40th
running of the $150,000 Pennsylvania Governor's Cup.

Joel Rosario, who rode Orb to his Derby victory at Churchill
Downs just four weeks ago, and Hall-of-Famer John Velasquez, who won the race
in 2011 atop Animal Kingdom, will both do double duty when they make their local
debuts on Saturday. The pair will ride in the early races at New York's Belmont
Park and then take a quick plane ride to Central Pennsylvania for the Penn Mile
card.

The one-mile turf test will be the fourth race on the card
and the final leg of an All-Stakes Pick Four wager.

Todd Pletcher, five-time Eclipse Award winner as America's
leading trainer, has entered Charming Kitten and Jack Milton in the Penn Mile. The
first named is another history maker as he becomes the first three-year old to
ever run in the Kentucky Derby and also compete at Penn National during his
sophomore campaign.

Noble Tune, second in last year's $1 Million Breeders' Cup
Juvenile Turf, is the 2-1 morning line favorite with Javier Castellano in the
irons. He comes in off a sharp victory in the $200,000 American Turf Stakes on
May 3 at Churchill Downs.

"Our colt is training extremely well for this race", said
trainer Chad Brown yesterday from his Belmont Park headquarters. "He trained
like this right before the American Turf and we are expecting a big effort."

Rydiluc, beat less than a length as the favorite in the
$750,000 Blue Grass Stakes on April 13, is the 5-2 second choice. Veteran
jockey Edgar Prado will ride the Palm Beach Handicap winner for trainer Gary
Contessa.

Pletcher told track officials that he thinks both of his
colts prefer running on the turf, and he was satisfied with Charming Kitten's
race in the Derby.

"We took a shot in the Derby and he ran well for his first
try on the dirt. He won a turf stakes at Gulfstream Park this winter and is
back on his favorite surface."

Kyma, and millionaires Ben's Cat, and Breeders' Cup champion
Chamberlain Bridge, respective winners of the last three PA Governor's Cup
Sprint, are all part of an 11-horse field for this year's 41st renewal
of the five-furlong turf dash.

Ben's Cat upped his career earnings to more than $1.46
million with a one-length win in the $100,000 Maryland Turf Sprint on the
Preakness Day card at Pimlico on May 17, while Chamberlain Bridge, winner of
$1.94 million, fell a nose short of winning the $125,000 Turf Sprint on this
year's Derby Day at Churchill Downs.

Velasquez will ride 5-2 favorite Rattlesnake Bridge for
Pletcher in the second running of the $250,000 Mountainview Handicap .The
runnerup in last year's $1 million Travers Stakes was recently third in the
$150,000 Westchester Handicap in New York.

Macho Macho is the 3-1 second choice in the mile and
one-eighth dirt race with Rosario in the saddle. The four-year old colt won the
$750,000 West Virginia Derby last season and was second in the $1 million
Pennsylvania Derby at Parx Racing.